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No. 242,590. Patented June 7,1883.

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NITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BOlVEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,590, dated June '7,1881.

Application filed February 19, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JAMES H.BOWEN, a citizenof the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia,and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inToys, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is avertical section of the toy embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection .in line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the twofigures.

My invention consists of a toy having the following characteristics: afigure of a bird, animal, 850., wagging its tail and moving its head ormouth in imitation of singing, barking, &c., and means for producingsound in imitation of that of the bird, animal, &c., which the figurerepresents, synchronous with the motions of the tail and head or mouth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a frame, which may be mounted ona stand, a, or wheels I).

B represents a horizontally-arranged shaft, which is mounted on theframe and provided with a crank-handle, c, or made of the form of anaxle connected to the wheels b,so that should the toy be supported onthe standa the handlec provides means for rotating the shaft, or, whenthe toy is supported on the wheels and drawn along, the axle is rotated.Connected to the shaft is a bevel-wheel, d, which meshes with abevelwheel, 6, on the lower end of a vertical shaft, 0, which is passedthrough the upright portion A of the frame A, and properly mounted, andhas its upper end project into the body of a figure, D, which latter issupported on the portion A, and is in the present case of the form of abird, although that of an animal or other objectmaybeemployed.Thefigurehasamovable bill, f, and tail g, which are pivoted. to thebody, so that the former may open and close and the latter wag inimitation of similar motions of the live bird or object. The bill isformed with an extension, f, and the tail with an extension, 9, bothextensions projecting inwardly so that they face each other, wherebythey may be engaged by a cam, E, on the upper end of the shaft 0, saidcam being cylindrical in cross section, and its upper edge winged,scalloped, or formed with several elevations and depressions,theextensionf of the billrestin g against said upper edge of the cam. Thelower edge of the cam has one or more elevations, against which reststhe extension 9 of the tail. The. shaft G passes through asound-producing device, F, located within the portion A of the frame,and consisting of a coiled or rubber spring, it, one end of which isconnected to the shaft C and the other end bears against a wooden sleeveor disk, k, which is fitted loosely on the shaft 0, and encircles or isin contact with ablock or piece, m, of metal, which is fixed to theportion A of the frame, and has the shaft 0 passed loosely through it,the spring h encircling said shaft.

If desired, the sleeve k maybe made of metal and the block or piece atof wood, the object in either case being to cause, by the rotation ofthe sleeve 70, a creaking sound which imitates to some extent thesinging or warbling of a bird, croakin g of afrog, grunting of apig,barking of a dog, or other noises of animal or other objects relativelyto the pressure of the wood on the metal, or vice versa, due to thespring 71. and the regularity and irregularity of the rotation of thesleeve; for as the sleeve is rotated by the action of the springh,connected to the rotary shaft 0, and said spring, owing to the frictionof the sleeve 7c and block m, is caused at times to dwell, then gainspower and abruptly starts, and again suddenly stops, a variety of noiseor sound is occasioned by the device F.

In the drawings I show three birds or figures; but in carrying out myinvention I may use one or all of the figures at pleasure. 1n the rightand left hand figures the cam E is placed on the horizontal shaft B, andthe inner exten= sion, g, of the tail bears against the inner extension,f, of the bill, and has a depending arm, g, which is engaged by said camE.

If desired, the entire head of the figure D may be hinged to the bodythereof, instead of having the hinged bill or month, without departingfrom my invention.

It will be seen that the operation of the shaft B rotates the cam E andthe sleeve or disk 7c of the sounding device, whereby the figure movesits bill, mouth, head, &c., and wags its tail, the sound of whistling orwarbling, 8m,

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impart motion to the mouth and tail of the figure, as stated.

2. A sound-producing device and a figure with a movable mouth and tail,in combina tion with a rotary shaft or axle operating both said deviceand the means which move the mouth and tail of the figure, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

Vitnesses: J. H. BOWEN.

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. GRANT.

